AI-assisted development velocity
Measuring and scaling software delivery output with AI coding tools. Every AI Coding Weekly story on AI-assisted development velocity, newest first. 10 stories since September 2026.
- dax says opencode rewrote opentunnel in Rust and moved it live
A language rewrite plus a cutover off Cloudflare onto 10 Fly regions, reported by the person who ran it.
- One phone prompt rewrote opencode2, dax says it cost $500
The same week, Prime Intellect says a swarm of over 2,000 agents spent two weeks rewriting its own agent in Rust.
- Ball one-shots 1,780 error-free lines, then aims at 8,000
Thorsten Ball is building a language called Brezel in single agent attempts and posting the line counts.
- dax says custom agent setups fix problems that no longer exist
Kent C. Dodds agrees and says give the agent tools, not instructions it has to religiously follow.
- Theo fixes a GitHub annoyance with a 90 second Chrome extension
One prompt, one small browser extension, and a point about what fixing other people's software now costs.
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- Pocock trims lauren's prompt to five words
A misunderstanding check you can type in five words, borrowed from a longer version that lauren says is one of her most used prompts.
- One agent goal has landed 575 PRs moving OpenClaw to async
Steinberger calls sync database access his biggest design mistake after the move to SQLite, and says the fix is shipping as it goes.
- Theo has been tracking which models he swears at
A joke metric from @argofowl turned out to be something Theo had already been logging.
- Steinberger. OpenClaw deleted 400k lines of tests
The trick is not the deletion, it is giving the agent a number it can measure itself against.
- Lauren says she shipped 2,500 PRs to production last month
The talk was meant for Cursor Compile in London, and she put it on X instead.
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